2025-04-12 01:17:17
It's amazing how long Claude allows our designers to fly solo these days, but it's also crucial to cleanup the vibe coding, if you want a beautiful, maintainable code base for the long term.
2025-04-11 23:16:34
If you're letting AI write your cover letter for a job application, you should know that it'll often read just like any other person doing the same. And then all these applications end up in the discard pile 😄
2025-04-11 14:53:43
To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work — despite knowing it probably won't! That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's really not. Believing that what you're building is going to work is an essential component of coming to work with the energy, fortitude, and determination it's going to require to even have a shot. Knowing it probably won't is accepting the odds of that shot.
It's simply the reality that most things in business don't work out. At least not in the long run. Most businesses fail. If not right away, then eventually. Yet the world economy is full of entrepreneurs who try anyway. Not because they don't know the odds, but because they've chosen to believe they're special.
The best way to balance these opposing points — the conviction that you'll make it work, the knowledge that it probably won't — is to do all your work in a manner that'll make you proud either way. If it doesn't work, you still made something you wouldn't be ashamed to put your name on. And if it does work, you'll beam with pride from making it on the basis of something solid.
The deep regret from trying and failing only truly hits when you look in the mirror and see Dostoevsky staring back at you with this punch to the gut: "Your worst sin is that you have destroyed and betrayed yourself for nothing." Oof.
Believe it's going to work.
Build it in a way that makes you proud to sign it.
Base your worth on a human on something greater than a business outcome.
2025-04-10 13:28:36
Jorge reflects on what it's been like working at 37signals for the past five years: "In my first job, the people running the show didn’t give a shit, and the experience left a deep mark on me. This is the opposite." https://world.hey.com/jorge/37signals-53f42324
2025-04-08 18:06:28
"Maybe it sounds a little harsh, but a programmer who's been working professionally for five years has likely already revealed their potential. The trajectory by which they improve has already been plotted." https://world.hey.com/dhh/why-we-won-t-hire-a-junior-with-five-years-of-experience-0a548994
2025-04-08 13:35:43
I'm as AI positive as the next guy, but you're delusional if you think any AI agent is full-on replacing a great programmer today. Who knows about tomorrow, but that day hasn't arrived yet.
